lizardb0y wrote:This is almost crying out for some kind of Collector Personality Type Indicator (like the MBTI) isn't it?

Lol! It's always good to revisit these old threads.

Since I posted that first note, I've become far more experienced at repairing machines and I think my order has changed.

I'd now rank myself Historian and Repairer. Maybe finisher if you regard my own personal "wanted" list, but not as far as any particular model goes. I've decided I'm not a hoarder. I do hang on to double ups for spare parts but unless it's on my list or is a really vintage machine (as in 1985 backwards) that falls into my lap for free, I have no problem passing it by.

kevman3d wrote:Hoarder, definitely. While the ZX81 was the first one, I gave it to a friend who wanted it for his collection...

But still hold on to my Spectrum, and literally everything that I collected with it from Magz to Software (god knows how many of those tapes actually still work, but I can't throw them out). Its been stored in boxes in all kinds of environments. A lot of damp ones at that so no idea if it still works. I even have the old Sharp cassette deck (I dunno how many people recall those large chunky decks that most schools had, with the wood-grain top on them) that was my other main "peripheral". Given all this gear has never really been outside of storage for almost 2 decades and that I've held on to it - Yep, definitely a hoarder.

Given that you specialise just on Sinclair perhaps a bit of Finisher in there as well Kev?

Repairereven back when I had my first Atari 8 bit I spent more time doing mods to it than using it to play games, Always did get more fun out of stripping things down see how they work and getting them to work better. This was back them when we called some one a hacker, we it meant some one who played with the hardware to mod it or repair it.

Back in 1986/7 I meet a guy who bought out the UK Atari Workshop, so ended up with heaps of cheap 1050 drives to repair and a large number of 800xls and 130 XEs, took these with me when I went to South Africa on contract and then brought them here , still had some to repair,and have been buying the odd Atari as and when I have seen them come up for sale over the years, and until about 9 months ago had never collected anything other than Atari, in the last 12 months I have added C= etc to the list getting plenty of faulty C64's but finding some of the chips hard to get

tezza wrote:Given that you specialise just on Sinclair perhaps a bit of Finisher in there as well Kev?

lol! Yeh, actually you're probably right - given how much stuff there is, its probably a much better description. (though I never throw anything away "just in case" so I am definitely a hoarder as well (not just of the Sinclair stuff )